Common, Questlove, Nas & More Speak Out Against Trump's Family Separation Policy

Rappers have come out strong against Trump’s new policy

Last month, President Donald Trump’sAttorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new “zero tolerance” policy when it comes to immigrants who try to cross the border. When Sessions made the announcement, the AG said: “If you are smuggling a child then we will prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you as required by law.”

Since then, more than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents at the border. These children are being placed in makeshift tents and centers, while their parents are being prosecuted.

The new policy and the treatment these children have dominated news coverage. You can’t ignore the story anymore.

Celebrities and rappers aren’t quiet, either. These pop culture figures have been speaking out against the images and details that are being released. Some have released details about how you can help. Others have shared the harrowing video of Rachel Maddowcrying during a newscast on Tuesday evening.

Common

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pic.twitter.com/X8rOVv3Du6

John Legend

Ava DuVernay

I look at myself as a girl and imagine having to travel unsafely in a quest for safety. Be forcibly separated from my mother. Caged with people I don’t know and who don’t know me. Alone in a world I don’t understand. Imagine this for the child you were. We cannot allow this. pic.twitter.com/JIWOiWDXvu